Name: Old Fashioned Cinnamon Toast
Total time: 17 min
Ingredients: 8 slices regular white, thick, or whole wheat bread; 2 sticks softened salted butter; 1/2 cup granulated sugar; 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Old Fashioned Cinnamon Toast

For the real deal on cinnamon toast, you have come to the right place. This is a recipe for old fashioned cinnamon toast that originated from the seventies. I guess it really is old fashioned! Wait until you see the easiest recipe that comes out smelling and tasting totally amazing. A favorite from childhood that’s still my favorite.

This recipe is not going to be a piece of toast that’s slathered with butter and then sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. Oh no, this is the real deal like I said before. You are in for an old fashioned treat that will take you such a short time to prepare and will taste like cinnamon heaven.

Just a little background from the original recipe from when I was living on the north shore of Long Island, New York.

I was in junior high. We didn’t call it middle school in the 70s and 80s. It was just junior high school.

Well, I was in 7th grade at the time. First year of junior high school and first year to start home economics. Home Ec for short.

It was a mandatory subject then and even up to today since I have a fourteen year old boy who took it last year in middle school.

Way back when I took it, believe it or not, it was just for girls. How things have changed.

I remember so clearly how the kitchens looked in that classroom. It was a huge classroom on the bottom floor of the junior high building. The back wall were all windows that overlooked one of the playgrounds.

There were four kitchens set up. Two were a pale green color and the other two kitchens were a faded pink color. I’m talking about the cabinets and counter tops.

I can’t believe I remember what they looked like!

The refrigerators matched the cabinets. Each kitchen also had a small rectangle Formica kind of table with the metal going around the sides of the table. Four sturdy chairs with the seats and backs the color of the cabinets. Again, I can’t believe I remember all the details of that classroom.

So now on to the original cinnamon toast recipe. It was the very first recipe we made in home economics class.

All the girls were so excited. We were told that after we made each recipe they would give us time to sit in the little assigned kitchens and eat the final result.

That was after we finished washing whatever utensils and other kitchen items used to make that particular recipe.

Just making this simple recipe was thrilling for me and I’m sure most of the girls in the class. For twelve and thirteen year old girls that never really cooked before it really was a thrill.

I remember like it was yesterday how the whole classroom smelled while the cinnamon toast was in the oven. Beyond wonderful.

When we took the sheet pan out of the oven which was lined with aluminum foil, we couldn’t wait to take the first bite.

We each got to make two slices per person.

We each put on a set of ovenmits and had to remove each hot piece of cinnamon toast using a spatula. Taking turns of course.

Then, we plated the two slices on the kind of dishes that the Brady Bunch ate on. A melamine resin plate. Of course each piece of the sets in each kitchen matched the cabinets. Shades of pink and green.

If you dropped any of the dishes, they just bounced. They didn’t break.

So, we finally sat down and took our first bite. I still have to say to this day, as simple and easy a recipe that was, it was the best thing I had ever eaten. Better than ice cream, pizza, anything.

This is why I make cinnamon toast all the time! I never tire of it and neither does my family.

Now my son makes it on Sunday mornings for all of us. Using my original recipe.

A handful of basic ingredients is all that’s needed for simple decadence.

I hope you enjoy my old fashioned recipe and that it may bring back happy childhood memories for you.

Maybe your mom or special relative made a delicious old fashioned cinnamon toast recipe that you remember.

Oh! I have to try and find or remember the very last recipe we made when the class ended. Baked Alaska! Fancy stuff. Well, we thought so at the time.

It was an exciting day as well as a sad one since the class was over for the semester.

One more thing, I got a grade of 100 for that class. Maybe that’s why I became a caterer and now food blogger. All from the love of home economics class.